Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...understand that when this subject is considered at the coming convention of graduate students in Philadelphia, a favorable tendency in the right direction will be reported from several colleges. As for Harvard's influence at present there can be no doubt. The standard of work required here for the two degrees in question is unquestionably a high one. With the exception of the conferring of the honorary degree of A. M., which is always done with discretion, both the master's and doctor's degree are marks of high scholarly attainment...
...much interested in outside matters as any one else, so that there is often no external difference between a church member and a nonchurch member. This fact does not necessarily lower the church, but it shows churchmen that if they wish to live as such they must thoroughly understand Christ's teachings. His commandments deal primarily with man's conduct both toward God and toward man. Christ has given to the world examples of how these commandments should be fulfilled. His teachings are generally interpreted too literally. Too often men treat his words as a kind of charm or fetish...
...opportunity for service to God just as much as in going to church and in doing missionary work Jesus did not mean that those who follow him must necessarily renounce their every day pursuits and cease to come in contact with others. It often puzzles one who tries to understand what He mant by saying, that one who became a disciple of his had to forsake all possessions and follow Him. It is true that the slow, stupid populace with which he had to deal needed some goad to arouse them to a consideration of their spiritual condition; but that...
...also, as we understand it, one of the principal features of the plan that graduates in Cambridge, whether temporarily or as residents, would make use of the club. Thus both graduates and undergraduates would be brought into occasional intercourse with each other and it would be fair to hope that a greater unity of feeling arising between them as Harvard men would strengthen their common attachment for the University...
...Gentner having pronounced judgment against my logic, it seems almost presumptuous on my part to attempt any defense. I will, however, venture to say that he has apparently failed to understand both the meaning and purpose of my letter...